SF Giants’ Mike Yastrzemski and A’s Tony Kemp share parallel paths through baseball together
The field at the Oakland Coliseum had all but cleared. The Giants had beaten the A’s in the penultimate Bay Bridge series game. But two players from opposite dugouts stayed.
Life always seems to bring these two longtime friends together, from the dorms at Vanderbilt to the minor league grind to Bay Area baseball to parenthood. So this new tradition felt natural. The group photo celebrates the latest stop they’ve taken together: Parenthood, almost simultaneously. Yastrzemski and his wife, Paige, had daughter Quinle on Dec. 3, 2021. Just three weeks later, Dec. 27, Kemp and his wife, Michelle, became parents to daughter McKenna.
They became nearly inseparable as roommates at Vanderbilt University, where the two played for the Commodores. But their bond began when Kemp visited Vandy for a recruiting trip. He “talked a big game,” Yastrzemski said, with a kind of outward confidence that drew in his new friend.
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